A 32-slide professional development presentation introduces administrators, counselors, and teachers to the social awareness competency. The presentation includes specific strategies to help learners develop social awareness, identifies the role parents and teachers can play, and offers information about how adults can model strategies for pupils.

Concepts

social-emotional learning, casel, social awareness, emotional development, emotions, identifying emotions, expressing feelings, feelings

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Instructional Ideas

• Organize a district-wide professional development seminar for administrators, counselors, and teachers featuring the Social Awareness Toolkit
• Teachers can download the toolkit and examine it independently

Classroom Considerations

• Part of the Transforming Education series of professional development designed to support the teaching of the five social-emotional competencies

Pros

• The strategies are research-based
• Includes a color code to indicate the grades for which each strategy is most appropriate

Cons

• None